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Book SynopsisDesigned as a historical novel, The Masochist forges an intimate portrait of a young, tenacious woman who, in uncertain times at the end of the 19th century, chose an uncertain path - the only path that could lead her to freedom. On Christmas Eve 1874, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whom history would remember as the most famous masochist, left his home in Bruck an der Mur in Austria for the unknown. The novel surmises he didn't come back alone, but brought with him a new family member: a tiny red-haired girl he found in the forests around Lemberg/ Lviv. The Masochist is the memoir of Nadezhda Moser, the woman this little girl becomes, a fictional character who forces her way among the historical figures of the time.
Trade Review"Perhaps the most appealing aspect of this novel is its infinite power of linguistic invention . . .Katja Perat herself plying it so boldly and so cleverly." Delo; "This is a novel that, in a rich, poetic language, examines historical developments on a personal and a social level and signals the changes . . . fought and won over the next centuries for women today." Mladina
